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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. Riak KV vs. SingleStore

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.78
Rank#221  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20162012198320092013
Current release1.0.6735, June 202319.4.1, November 20213.2.0, December 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureErlangC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infovia pluginsnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
Java
PHPC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infoTransaction FunctionsyesErlangyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factorSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, using Riak SecurityFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeDatomicFileMakerRiak KVSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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